Reputation of a Reputation
David Honig
honig at sprynet.com
Mon Dec 3 17:44:55 PST 2001
At 10:17 AM 12/3/01 -0800, Tim May wrote:
>As soon as people tumble to the fact that "Tom Clancy" has sold his
>nym/reputation to some hack writer, that is, let them put his name on
>their words, then the reputation of "Tom Clancy" falls.
I was coming to that conclusion thanks to the public
exchange of certain extremely-high-rep folks here.
The conclusion: you can't sell a nym. Nyms are best
managed by their initiator. You can sell a nym's
recommendation reliably but not a nym. Is this true?
A grasshopper,
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